Lately, the momentum towards touchscreens and smartphones as primary computing devices has been overwhelming. As a result, there are fewer and fewer roles for the physical keyboard, though it's likely ...

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If you answered yes, we have some bad news because you are probably wrong. It turns out the QWERTY layout — a keyboard that has “Q”, “W”, “E”, “R”, “T”, and “Y” as the first keys from the left on the ...

Released in 1989, the Psion MC-400 laptop was way ahead of its time, it included all of these features except one... The QWERTY layout was created by Milwaukee, Wisconsin newspaper editor Christopher ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

Apple has just released an update for iOS 8, the operating system that runs on iPhones and iPads, and they’re supporting 3rd party keyboards for the first time in iOS history. Perhaps that’s partly ...

If you want to give it a try, it’s available in two formats — standard for one-hand typing and wide for two-hand typing — in ...

The QWERTY keyboard has puzzled many since its invention in the 1870s, but there's indeed a method to its seemingly random configuration. Initially featuring an alphabetical setup, newspaper editor ...

A new keyboard for tablet computers promises to speed up typing by a third - by ditching the traditional QWERTY layout. Researchers at St Andrews University and Germany's Max Planck institute used ...